Re: Interesting information about SSH scans

Philipp Frik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.incidents
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Daniel Cid schrieb:

>I set up some honeypots and also made a few
>modifications to the ssh daemon to print out the
>passwords these scans were trying to use. I noticed a
>reduction in the number of scans, but I still got a
>few in the last few days.
>  
>
Is it possible to get your modified Vesion?

>Basically I noticed 2 different scans.
>
>** Scan 1 - Attempt many passwords against the root
>account and a lot of attempts against common/default
>accounts (with the password being the same as the
>account name). Interesting is that some of the
>passwords for root doesn't look very simple and some
>use keyboard combinations (probably common too). 
>Received scans of this type from 7 different IPS (same
>passwords, users, etc).
>
>** Scan 2 - Attempt a lot of strange passwords against
>the root and admin account. Look bellow to see why I
>think they are strange. Looks like the scanner is
>broken :)
>Received scans of this type from 3 different IPS.
>
>  
>
At the first look they seem to be safe ;), but if you look at the
password an then on your keyboard you see that this is only a playing
with the first keys.  They aren't simple like "asdf" but they are simple ;)

How different are the IPs ? Came it from the same ISP? Or completly
different ISPs? Is it possible that the attacks came from hacked server
out there?

>*** User, password combinations:
>
>** Scan 1 (user, password combinations):
>user root, pass: 1qaz2wsx
>user root, pass: 1q2w3e4r5t6y
>user root, pass: 1qaz2wsx3edc4rfv
>user root, pass: qazwsxedcrfv
>user root, pass: webmaster
>user root, pass: michael
>user root, pass: work
>user root, pass: maggie
>user root, pass: print
>user root, pass: 123456
>user root, pass: root1234
>user root, pass: 1qaz2wsx3edc
>user root, pass: qazwsxedc
>user root, pass: qazwsx
>user root, pass: internet
>user root, pass: mobile
>user root, pass: windows
>user root, pass: superman
>user root, pass: 1q2w3e4r
>user root, pass: network
>user root, pass: system
>user root, pass: administrator
>user root, pass: 123qwe
>user root, pass: manager
>user root, pass: redhat
>user root, pass: fedora
>user root, pass: okmnji
>user root, pass: qwerty
>user root, pass: httpd
>user root, pass: linux
>user root, pass: coder
>user root, pass: www
>user root, pass: 123123
>user root, pass: 1234567890
>
>user james, pass: james
>user cvs, pass: cvs
>user tony, pass: tony
>user bill, pass: bill
>user print, pass: print
>user maggie, pass: maggie
>user info, pass: info
>user http, pass: http
>user ftp, pass: ftp
>user dany, pass: dany
>user suse, pass: suse
>user oracle, pass: oracle
>user tomcat, pass: tomcat
>user backup, pass: backup
>user id, pass: id
>user sgi, pass: sgi
>user postgres, pass: postgres
>user flowers, pass: flowers
>user internet, pass: internet
>user linux, pass: linux
>user nokia, pass: nokia
>user bash, pass: bash
>user mysql, pass: mysql
>user webmaster, pass: webmaster
>
>
>** Scan 2 (user, password combinations):
>These passwors look very strange... Does anyone
>will ever use a password of root1234567890? :)
>
>  
>
You wouldn't never use passwords like this, but there a many stupid
people outside they use passwords like this.

>user root, pass: root12
>user root, pass: root123
>user root, pass: root1234
>user root, pass: root12345
>user root, pass: root123456
>user root, pass: root1234567
>user root, pass: root12345678
>user root, pass: root123456789
>user root, pass: root1234567890
>
>user admin, pass: admin
>user admin, pass: admin1
>user admin, pass: admin12
>user admin, pass: admin123
>user admin, pass: admin1234
>user admin, pass: admin12345
>user admin, pass: admin123456
>user admin, pass: admin1234567
>user admin, pass: admin12345678
>user admin, pass: admin123456789
>user admin, pass: admin1234567890
>
>
>Thanks,
>  
>

Philipp
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